quality at slwa cathy kelso catherine.kelso@slwa.wa.au

Quality at SLWA

Cathy Kelso

catherine.kelso@slwa.wa.gov.au

A quick snapshot of SLWA:

• 1,453,452 bibliographic records• 3,734,634 item records• 197,295 digital objects• 1,459,874 visits to the library in 2010-11.• Shared system with Health Department of WA

Model (Lula) with bottle and glass of Swan lager, 1968 120030PD

Early Stages…

The Pioneering Quality Librarians at SLWA

• Position created in 2006 as part of a restructure of library operations.

• Vision for the Role: “ensures quality and integrity of data on the library management system”.

The first quality librarian sat with cataloguing staff in the Access team and was originally a cataloguer.

Library - 1920s001906d

2nd incarnation - a shared role between two part-time staff, one an ex-cataloguer - the other took a more global approach to the Data.

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Shared System Project with Dept. of Health

• Agreed standards for all common data not just bibliographic – covers item, check-in, order records.

• Clean up of data to meet standards• New tools – Statistics, Global update.

Routine data quality work at SLWA today

Peters quality control 128065PD

• Removing duplicate records

• Removing “orphan” records

• Purging “aged” borrowers

• Consultation regarding standards

• Holdings update on Libraries Australia

Quality Librarians Tool Kit

1. Library Management System.

• Global update• Statistics module• Data Exchange• Load tables

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Quality Librarians Tool Kit

2. Standards.

• Marc standards• LC Authorities• AACR2

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Quality Librarians Tool Kit

3. MarcEdit and the MARCEDIT-L list.

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Quality Librarians Tool Kit

4. Regular Expressions.

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What does the future hold?

• Implementation of RDA

• Maintainance of holdings on Libraries Australia

Monsanto Chemicals plastic house of the future, 1957238,850PD

Garden party, Government House, 1954 011635D

Thank you!